The NFL is all about matchups . Talk about a bad matchup. The Buffalo Bills (3-4) are bringing their worst-in-the-league run defense to Houston to try to stop the Texans (6-1) and their best-in-the-league running attack...

He is a quarterback on the field and a leader in the locker room for the New York Jets . With the unified support of all of his teammates and coaches, he is the only man capable of leading the Jets to wins this season...

The Buffalo Bills are having a better season than usual so far this year. They were tied for the first place in the AFC East only a week ago and remain a respectable 3-4. Yet so much in the NFL has to do with strength of schedule...

Fans of the New England Patriots —especially young ones—are not familiar with scrapping to make it into the playoffs. In eight of the past nine years, the Patriots have won the AFC East, and they usually had it locked up by around Week 15...

Some of the safest bets in the NFL are against teams riding a wave of optimism and garnering too much of a spread. Very often those teams fall into trap games, and even if they do not lose, they win by a lot less than the spread...

You see it happen to at least one team every year in the NFL . A unit that appears deep and reliable is suddenly made shallow by injuries. Even the best and sturdiest of units is, at most, two injuries away from becoming a weak point...